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Protista Diseases
Name of Disease, Name of Organism, Mode of Transmission, Symptoms
Disease | Organism | Mode of Transmission | Symptoms |
---|---|---|---|
Amoebic Dysentery | Entamoeba histolytica | contaminated food or water (Mexican esp.) | vomitting, bloody diarrhea |
Giardiasis | Giardia lamblia | contaminated water; reptiles | cramps, nausea, vommiting |
Leishmaniasis | Trypanosoma gambiense | sand fly | skin sores, deep eroding lesions |
Sleeping Sickness | Trypanosoma bruceii | tse tse fly | fever, weakness, lethargy |
Chagas Disease | Trypanosoma cruzi | kissing bug | fever, severe heart damage; death |
Toxoplasmosis | Toxoplasma gondii | infected cats | convulsions, brain damage; death |
Trichomonas | Trichomonas vaginalis | sexual intercourse (STD) | itching, burning |
Malaria | Plasmodium | anopheles mosquito | dever, chills, dementia (crazy); death; symptoms occur every 48 hours |